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starting to come apart stupid tapie and company

Well, at least they have satellites in multiple online sites, a step in the right direction. The PR to the average player seems weak. This is a new format for a tournament. You would think that they would create some overall interest by directly appealing to players by fronting some tournaments in live and online sites as soon as possible to maximize the number of people holding entries to the tournament. The more poker players holding entries, the more "solid" and legit this first event becomes. They have only to look at all the hard work and sweat PartyPoker put in for their first Millions poker cruise, qualifying people to "make the boat". The PartyPoker first cruise ship Millions tournament is the perfect model for the ISPT to follow.

PartyPoker literally had online entries given at the lowest sub-qualifier level GIVEN to people to play. We are talking of maybe $500 per day for a month or so, peanuts compared to the rake generated by the sub-qualifiers. They should be spending money to feed people directly into the tournament rather than apparently paying silly salaries to people that quite honestly are not doing any practical work aside from being mouthpieces.

The stadium is a boat ... ISPT seems to have forgotten that to be successful you have to work hard to fill up the boat rather than just talking about it.